A Friend Indeed

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The boys encircled her son without saying a word.

With their football gear still wet from the effort of the game, tears stinging their eyes, disappointment breaking their young hearts, the players knelt around Oakley Hansen and gave him something his parents didn't even know he was missing.

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A Friend Indeed

Born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, 15-year-old Oakley Hansen has spent more of his life in a hospital than at home. Then in 2001, he suffered a traumatic brain injury that limited his intellectual capacity to that of a 3-year-old.

That is, unless you want to talk sports.

No one is quite sure where Oakley developed his passion for athletics. His ...

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